Lukas Rommelspacher
conductor / pianist
© Ute Laux
The conductor and pianist Lukas Rommelspacher joined Oper Frankfurt in 2018/19 as a soloists’ coach, where he made his conducting debut with a new Britten double bill: The Prodigal Son / The Burning Fiery Furnace. This was followed in 2023/24 by performances of a new Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba and during the 2024/25 season he leads performances of new productions of Magnard’s Guercœur and Dittersdorf’s Doctor and Pharmacist. He was reinvited to Castle Weikersheim’s Youth Opera in 2023, to coach, assist and conduct a performance of L’elisir d’amore. He worked at the 2022 Tirol Festival in Erl and conducted the Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester for a digital Carnival of the Animals in 2021, which was followed by Carmen with the National Youth Orchestra at the Stadttheater in Gießen and concerts with the Orchestra giovanile filarmonici friulani. He conducted the Marburg Youth Philharmonie from 2014 - 2018 and other engagements have taken him to places including the Freiburg Concerto armonico, the Wetzlar Youth Symphony Orchestra, Hessen’s Youth Philharmonie, the Rhein Orchester Academy in Mainz and the Festival for Young Artists in Bayreuth. Lukas Rommelspacher is Artistic Director of the Clara Schumann Orchester Frankfurt, which he founded in 2019. His concert pianist career has taken him to the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Villa Wahnfried, the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden, Schumann Haus in Zwickau, the Beethoven Haus in Bonn and to France, Finland, Poland and Switzerland. He studied with Axel Gremmelspacher at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt, Eric Le Sage at the University of Music Freiburg, Uwe Sandner (conducting) and Eugen Wangler (coaching).